Motoko Shimizu is a street and portrait photographer based in New York City. In 1995, she came to New York to pursue a career as a rock singer and enjoyed an active career as an experimental music singer/multi-instrumentalist.
Since 2012, her artistic passion has shifted to photographing people and places in New York's East Village (where she has lived since 1998) and around the world. She specializes in street and family portraits using a candid "street photo" approach (outside of a studio setting). Her ongoing project (since summer of 2018) is a multi-year chronicle of the Lauridsen family of Hoboken, New Jersey.